If you are a .Mac service subscriber, don’t forget today is the day by which Apple wants you to sync any online .Mac bookmarks to your computer. This is all part of the upcoming transition from the .Mac to MobileMe online service. While MobileMe is the replacement for .Mac (announced at the WorldWide Developers Conference) and retains or improves upon many of the .Mac features - web access to bookmarks is not a feature that will be continued. So if you have bookmarks saved on the web which are not synchronized to your Mac, today is the day by which Apple requests that you perform a sync.

New York Times

If you’re an iPhone user and who is not yet a subscriber to the .Mac service, here’s an opportunity to purchase a 5 user .Mac subscription for $80. As a .Mac subscriber you’ll automatically get an upgrade on July 11 when the Mobile service launches. With Mobile Me you’ll have access to push email, push calendar, push contacts and 20GB of online storage. Mobile Me is looking like a must have application to go along with your iPhone. Take advantage of this offer and you’ll save about $40 off the regular street price of a 5 user .Mac subscription and you’ll be all ready to start receiving push mail/calendar/contacts when you pick up your shiny new 3G iPhone on July 11.

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When it rains it pours. I feel like the Morton Salt girl…

If you remember, a week or so ago, I posted a huge rant on how Microsoft released buggy and problematic SP’s in both Vista SP1 and XP SP3. There have been a lot of people bumping into operational problems with corrupted Registries, corrupted files, and endless reboot loops. I can’t help but shake my head when crap like this happens.

UPDATE: I forgot to mention that I have NOT installed the 10.5.3 Update yet. I’m actually a little nervous about it.  I have a 5G iPod and don’t want to kill iTunes with this update.  I’ll wait a bit more and see if there are some fixes coming for the problems that have been reported. I don’t want to jeopardize my ability to download and listen to PodCasts. My 2 hour round trip commute on the train would become unbearable without my iPod and my PodCast fix…

I also wanted to let everyone know that (if memory serves correctly) I saw postings about this on ComputerWorld and Extreme Tech as well as Mac FixIt.  The penetration of these issues may not be HUGE, but they have gotten a little bit of press beyond Mac FixIt.

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